#ld

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#holden-caulfield #stasis #change

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#could #had #heart #known #love

A brick could be used to bestow gratitude upon your favorite (or least favorite) politician. Let them know your approval level by giving them the gift that says both Thank You—and Fuck You.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

We're children. We're supposed to be childish. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#innocence #myrcella #myrcella-baratheon #childhood

You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana. ↗

— John Rachel

#calculus #chimpanzee #education #golden-rule #lyme-disease

It’s [old age] not a surprise, we knew it was coming – make the most of it. So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game. ↗

— Betty White

#age

We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.' --Skulduggery Pleasant ↗

— Derek Landy

#skuldugerry-pleasant #humor

I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will always feel bigger than anything life can throw at him. Why? Because I get it. I get the power a dad has in a child’s life, and in a child’s level of self-belief. I get that everything I ever do and ever say to my son will be absorbed, for good or for bad. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new. ↗

— Rick Allen

#brand #brand new #character #i #new

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#been #between #confronted #could #i